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DOI article:Lipińska, Jadwiga: Some problems of the funerary figures of Egyptian God Ptah-Sokaris-Osiris
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and, considering the similarities of tlie coffins and figures, it seems probable that we have
to do licre with tlie same custom. In the case of figures belonging to the kings it is eyident
that they were made individually for each burial, but in the case of private persons we can
not be sure if they were made in the same way. Neverthcless we can see that each one is dif-
ferent and has different features of the face.
The philogical problems concerning the texts are no less interesting. Almost all texts, al-
ways written with hieroglyphs or tlieir cursive, contain the ordinary or partly mutated For-
muła of Offering, hut sometimes instead of it we can read other kinds of spclls and praycrs,
like those on the coffins.
Many irregularities and different variants of the texts should be studied, as well as combi-
nations and variants of hieroglyphic signs. Unfortunately our objects have inscriptions partly
illegible, hut better preserved parts show deviations from ordinary forms of Formuła of Of-
fering, and rarc examples of Ptolemaic signs.16 Names written on the statues belong to the
most important things and may be useful for the study of names, especially those of the
Ptolemaic period.
In conclusion it must be stated that different problems concerning the statues of Ptah-
Sokaris-Osiris have to be further studied and this paper is only suggesting these problems.
16. i.e. the sign
on the statuę No 142525. (Cf. Allen, Egyptian Slclac in Fidd Museum of
Natural BUtory, Chicago, 1936, pi. 20, No 31280.)
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and, considering the similarities of tlie coffins and figures, it seems probable that we have
to do licre with tlie same custom. In the case of figures belonging to the kings it is eyident
that they were made individually for each burial, but in the case of private persons we can
not be sure if they were made in the same way. Neverthcless we can see that each one is dif-
ferent and has different features of the face.
The philogical problems concerning the texts are no less interesting. Almost all texts, al-
ways written with hieroglyphs or tlieir cursive, contain the ordinary or partly mutated For-
muła of Offering, hut sometimes instead of it we can read other kinds of spclls and praycrs,
like those on the coffins.
Many irregularities and different variants of the texts should be studied, as well as combi-
nations and variants of hieroglyphic signs. Unfortunately our objects have inscriptions partly
illegible, hut better preserved parts show deviations from ordinary forms of Formuła of Of-
fering, and rarc examples of Ptolemaic signs.16 Names written on the statues belong to the
most important things and may be useful for the study of names, especially those of the
Ptolemaic period.
In conclusion it must be stated that different problems concerning the statues of Ptah-
Sokaris-Osiris have to be further studied and this paper is only suggesting these problems.
16. i.e. the sign
on the statuę No 142525. (Cf. Allen, Egyptian Slclac in Fidd Museum of
Natural BUtory, Chicago, 1936, pi. 20, No 31280.)
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